| I never thought I would be able to break my smoking | | | | breakfast instead of my usual breakfast of a cigarette |
| habit. It seemed like I was always waiting until the | | | | and coffee. After eating instead of a smoking I took a |
| stress in my life was at a minimum to begin to quit and | | | | walk or worked out or read a book. In the car I listened |
| of course that just never seemed to happen. I used | | | | to books on tape or music that took my mind off usual |
| my smoking as a stress reliever and I just didn't know | | | | times in the car when I would smoke. |
| what to replace it with. I was afraid of gaining weight | | | | It wasn't easy but I started replacing other activities |
| and it seemed like every time I stopped smoking I | | | | and habits for times when I would usually smoke. |
| replaced eating with my smoking and as soon as I | | | | When I decided that I had to break the smoking habit I |
| saw a weight gain over five pound I was once again | | | | started with a list of pros and cons for my decision to |
| smoking. | | | | smoke or to quit. In other words what I was getting out |
| So, I was sure I was going to have to find a behavior | | | | of smoking and then the cons to keeping with my |
| to replace my smoking or other methods of dealing | | | | smoking habit. Of course the pros far outweighed the |
| with stress. At work instead of taking ten minutes | | | | cons. The financial and health cost of a smoking habit |
| smoke breaks I started to replace them with ten | | | | makes the decision to continue one you cant really |
| minute walks outside in the parking lot. In the mornings | | | | justify in any sense except for the fact that as a |
| instead of a cigarette with my coffee I ate a healthy | | | | smoker this is a habit that you enjoy. |